William s



(No Model.)

W. s. BROWN.

HOLLOW OVAL 0R GONIGA'L BBAD. No. 363,885. Patented May 31, 1887.

A? W QM}- BY Mjo, ATTYS.

'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. BROWN, OF NEW'ARK, NEWV JERSEY.

HOLLOW OVAL, OR CONlCAL BEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,885, dated May 31, 1887.

Application filed July 29, 1886.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hollow Oval or Conical Beads, 850.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, andto letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provldea hollow oval or diamond shaped (in outline) bead of gold or other precious metal for chains, necklaces, and other jewelry, which will be more durable as well as more beautiful than those heretofore in use, and also be free from certain objections to which such beads have formerly been open.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters indicate like parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 represents a section of a chain having my improvements embodiedtherein. Fig. 2 represents a thin blank of metal from which the beads are formed. Fig. 3 represents the same piece of metal formed by means of appropriate dies into a thimble or cup shape; andFigs. etand 5 show the same reduced'in size and form, after which they are brought to the completed size and form, as indicated in Fig. 1.

Heretofore beads of this character or form have either been turned from a solid piece of gold or other-precious metal, which is. ex-

pensive, or, when made hollow, have always been made of two pieces and soldered to- Serial No.209,370. (No model.)

times quite impossible to do so, and a new head has to be substituted frequently, at great inconvenience and expense. *All these and other difficulties are entirely overcome by my invention, which involves a hollow oval or diamond shaped bead destituteof any seam or joint and formed from onepiece of materialsuch as gold or other precious metal.

In carrying out my said invention I take a thin round metal blank, as in Fig. 2, the size being determined by the size of the bead to be formed therefrom, which I proceed to draw or more operations the open end into the same form as that of the closed .end, thus completing a plain seamless oval or diamond shaped hollow head, as indicated at b and c in Fig. 1. 'The bead being thus formed without any seam or joint, may without difficulty, by means of appropriatetools or dies, befiuted or corrugated, as indicated ate and d in Fig.

1, or otherwise ornamented, as taste may suggest, a thing which would be vastly more dif ficult, if not impossible, to do if the beads were made with soldered joints, as heretofore.

' The dies or tools and the process herein referred to and used by me in forming and ornamenting the improved beads I have not thought it expedient to show and describe in detail, but have reserved the same for a probable future application. Neither do I Wish to be understood as claiming herein a hollow seamless bead of a straight, tubular, spherical, or'cylindrical form either plain or corrugated; nor do I claim anything shown or described in patents numbered 207,158, of 1878, 71,042, of 1867, or 61,777, of 1867;, or either of them; but

What I claim, and wish to have securedto me by Letters Patent, is-- 1. As an improved article of manufacture,

a hollow seamless oval or diamond shaped In testimony that I claim theforegoing I bead, as shown and described, and for the purhave hereunto set my hand this 19th day of poses herein set forth. July, 1886. a

2. A hollow seamless, corrugated, or other- WM. S. BROWN. t 5 wise ornamented oval or diamond shaped bead, Witnesses:

as shown and described, and for the purposes OLIVER DRAKE,

herein set forth. OSCAR A; MICHEL. 

